Trump to Ease Sanctions on Chinese Telecom

“Offering to trade American sanctions enforcement to promote jobs in China is plainly a bad deal for American workers and for the security of all Americans”, the senators wrote in a letter to Trump.

The report goes on to note that this is no minor project, but will include not one but “a number of Trump-branded hotels, a golf course, and a residence”.

“There will always be tensions and disagreements between countries on cross border commercial transactions, but history has shown that the United States gets a better outcome for itself and the global economy when it focuses on trade and investment rules instead of particular commercial outcomes”, she said.

Branstad said the United States could rescind the “Section 301” tariffs if China opened its agriculture and auto markets.

ZTE employs about 80,000 people, mostly in China.

“The failure to reach any agreement with the U.S. delegation rang alarm bells for many Chinese officials who used to be blindly optimistic”, a source said.

Kudlow, speaking in a live interview with Politico news outlet, said he backed U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin’s efforts to reach an agreement with Beijing and that both countries must take action.

“Now Chinese officials are beginning to worry about China’s economic resilience and potentially weak domestic demand, thus adding to the pressure on Liu, the helmsman of China’s economy”, the source said.

Ikenson said the administration’s focus on the $200 billion was “silly”, adding that if the US accepts China’s offer to import more goods, Trump can “claim mission accomplished and turn the page”. “We are now in close communication over details of the implementation”, Lu told reporters at a daily news briefing.

For its part, Beijing has spent the past 25 years undervaluing its currency to make Chinese exports less expensive in the USA market. In response, however, Beijing threatened retaliation, prompting President Trump to respond with the possibility of another $100 billion in tariffs on imports from mostly government-owned companies in China.

“A reversal of the ZTE decision could temporarily tamp down trade tensions by allowing the Chinese to make concessions to the US without losing face”, said Eswar Prasad, a professor of trade policy at Cornell University.

But an unexpected twist happened over the weekend when Trump said on Twitter that he is going to help get ZTE back to business.

ZTE agreed to paying a fine and a multi-year denial of export privileges.

Milacron said about 15 to 20 percent of its roughly $500 million in annual supply chain purchases come from China, and much of that can’t be readily sourced outside China. Whether or not the President understands this, he can’t deny the fact that the trade deficit has risen steadily since he assumed office, and this has made him frantic to settle for whatever enables him to appear to be fighting a domineering trade war, while avoiding the costs of the real thing.

You might expect the largest US manufacturer of plastics equipment, Milacron Holdings Corp., to come out 100 percent in favor of the Trump administration’s proposed tariffs on Chinese made plastics equipment.

The United States agrees to strengthen protection of Chinese intellectual property.

The intensifying trade dispute has rattled financial markets for weeks.

After ZTE failed to take action against company employees involved in the illegal exports, the Commerce Department last month banned US companies from supplying goods to ZTE for seven years. “What about the millions of jobs that are lost because of what China has done?” he asked, adding: “Why on earth would President Trump promise to help a Chinese telecom company that has flouted US sanctions and whose practices are a risk to our national security?”

“China’s utilisation of intelligence services and nontraditional collectors to advance their national development continues to place our national security at risk”.

“We import $500 billion worth of stuff from China”.